Candy vs. Confection

Candy, also called sweets (British English) or lollies (Australian English, New Zealand English), is a confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, called sugar confectionery, encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum, and sugar candy.

The act or process of confecting or the result of it

A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts.

A sweet prepared food, such as candy or cake.

A piece of such a confection.

A sweetened medicinal compound; an electuary.

(Slang) An illicit drug, especially one, such as cocaine, that has a sugary appearance or a drug in pill form, such as MDMA.

A piece displaying splendid craft, skill, and work

To cook, preserve, saturate, or coat with sugar or syrup

To make into a confection.

Edible, sweet-tasting confectionery containing sugar, or sometimes artificial sweeteners, and often flavored with fruit, chocolate, nuts, herbs and spices, or artificial flavors.

A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.

A piece of confectionery of this kind.

The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.

crack cocaine.

The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.

(uncountable) An accessory (bracelet, etc.) made from pony beads, associated with the rave scene.

(dated) An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.

(obsolete) A unit of mass used in southern India, equal to twenty maunds, roughly equal to 500 pounds avoirdupois but varying locally.

(dated) Something, such as a garment or a decoration, that is very elaborate, delicate, or luxurious, usually also impractical or non-utilitarian.

(cooking) To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup.

(pharmacology) A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.

(intransitive) To have sugar crystals form in or on.

To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.

(intransitive) To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

A composition of different materials.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.

To make sugar crystals of or in; to form into a mass resembling candy; as, to candy sirup.

A composition of drugs.

To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.

A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.

To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.

a food rich in sugar

To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass.

the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components

Any sweet, more or less solid article of confectionery, especially those prepared in small bite-sized pieces or small bars, having a wide variety of shapes, consistencies, and flavors, and manufactured in a variety of ways. It is often flavored or colored, or covered with chocolate, and sometimes contains fruit, nuts, etc.; it is often made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. Other types may consist primarily of chocolate or a sweetened gelatin. The term may be applied to a single piece of such confection or to the substance of which it is composed.

make into a confection;

Cocaine.

A weight, at Madras 500 pounds, at Bombay 560 pounds.

a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts

coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze